Not exact matches
But in an interesting twist, a developer who was hired by Reddit to work on the idea
of a «
crypto -
currency» — a
form of Bitcoin that users could receive in exchange for contributing content, or
as a way
of distributing some
of the shares that were issued in the site's fundraising round — said in a post on Medium that he was working on a plan to de-centralize Reddit in just this way before he was let go.
We might not be the first major autoresponder to accept
crypto currency as a
form of payment, but we're one
of the first for sure
Analysts believe that investors are gradually beginning to pay more attention to these assets since they are unrelated to a country's economy — unlike fiat
currencies and other traditional
forms of money exchange, which are extremely vulnerable to internal and external economic shocks — leading to the popularity
of cryptos such
as bitcoin and a few others.
Since retiring Jogging and closing his Etsy store Troemel has focused on personal work the deals with different
forms of valuation, whether directly
as with
crypto -
currencies like Bitcoins, or more abstractly in terms
of cultural capital.
You will say that, in fact, there are some companies who are accepting Bitcoin
as a
form of payment and that at least one broker is allowing traders to trade directly from an Ethereum wallet, but can we yet call «
Crypto» a
currency?